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Changelog xdg-utils (1.1.3-4.1ubuntu3~22.04.1)

2022

xdg-utils (1.1.3-4.1ubuntu3~22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

   * Update a distro patch from the corresponding upstream merge request
     (LP: #1967963)
     - debian/patches/upstream-mr-remove-bashisms.patch

xdg-utils (1.1.3-4.1ubuntu1.22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

   * Cherry-pick an upstream merge request to remove bashisms from xdg-settings
     (LP: #1970594)
     - debian/source/options
     - debian/patches/upstream-mr-remove-bashisms.patch

2021

xdg-utils (1.1.3-4.1ubuntu1) jammy-proposed; urgency=low

   * SECURITY REGRESSION: simple-scan email functionality break
     - debian/patches/CVE-2020-27748.patch: was reverted/delete in
       scripts/xdg-email.in.
   * Sync with Debian. Remaining change:
     - Add debian/xdg-utils.links:
       + Symlink /usr/bin/xdg-open to /usr/bin/browse (LP: #1624022)

xdg-utils (1.1.3-4.1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Simplified handling for ttyon and ttyoff, with thanks to
     Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>. (closes: 981422)

xdg-utils (1.1.3-4) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Set executable bit of the "ttyon" and the "ttyoff" utilities right before
     running tests, not in the "patch" target of debian/rules. This fixes
     architecture independent build with "dpkg-buildpackage -A".

xdg-utils (1.1.3-3) unstable; urgency=medium

   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * Remove obsolete field Name from debian/upstream/metadata (already present
     in machine-readable debian/copyright).
 
   [ Reuben Thomas ]
   * xdg-screensaver: fix suspending using window without a WM_NAME property
     Closes: #970203, Upstream: #98.
 
   [ KARBOWSKI Piotr ]
   * xdg-open: Exit also on non-zero exit status from 'Exec' .desktop entry.
     Upstream: !13.
 
   [ Nicholas Guriev ]
   * t-xdg-open.sh: Fix quoting issues. Closes: #975228, Upstream: !32.
   * xdg-open: Open terminal window in generic mode if .desktop file requires so
     Closes: #964877, Upstream: #84.
   * desktop_file_to_binary: fix "unexpected operator" bug. Closes: #809877,
     Upstream: #182.
   * Remove Per Olofsson from Uploaders list. Thank you for your previous work!
     Closes: #847164.
   * Link to /usr/bin/open through alternatives mechanism. LP: #342584.
   * New autopkgtests with Bash and Dash.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.1, no required changes.

2020

xdg-utils (1.1.3-2ubuntu2) hirsute; urgency=medium

   * SECURITY UPDATE: local file inclusion vulnerability
     - debian/patches/CVE-2020-27748.patch: remove attachment handling from
       mailto in scripts/xdg-email.in.
     - CVE-2020-27748

xdg-utils (1.1.3-2ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

   * Sync with Debian. Remaining change:
     - Add debian/xdg-utils.links:
       + Symlink /usr/bin/xdg-open to /usr/bin/browse (LP: #1624022)

xdg-utils (1.1.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * Bump debhelper from old 10 to 12.
   * Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends.
   * Add upstream metadata info.
 
   [ Nicholas Guriev ]
   * Shift debian/NEWS content to the left.
   * Set Rules-Requires-Root: no in debian/control.
   * Obey the nocheck build option.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0.
   * Add machine readable debian/copyright file.
   * Now uscan(1) watches FreeDesktop GitLab.
   * Add trailing new line into auto-generated patch header.
   * Drop redundant invocation dh_installchangelogs in debian/rules.
   * Install release notes as NEWS file in according P. 12.7 of the Debian
     policy.
   * xdg-mime: Create config directory if it does not exist yet.
     Closes: #652038.
 
   [ Rex Dieter ]
   * xdg-open: Do better pcmanfm check, fix AND operator. Closes: #908760,
     Upstream: BR106636, BR106161.
 
   [ Alberto Salvia Novella ]
   * xdg-email: Support for Deepin.
 
   [ Mario van der Linde ]
   * Enable Cinnamon screensaver for XDG aware desktop environments (e.g. LXQt).
 
   [ Iain Lane ]
   * xdg-screensaver: Sanitise window name before sending it over the bus.
     Closes: #910070, LP: #1743216, Upstream: BR108121.
 
   [ Andrea Tarocchi ]
   * xdg-open: correct handling directories with spaces in the name.
     LP: #1848335, Upstream: #166.

2018

xdg-utils (1.1.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release.
     - Avoid argument injection vulnerability in open_envvar.
       Fixes CVE-2017-18266, closes: #898317.
   * Remove 01-open-lxqt.patch applied by upstream.
   * Fix word expansion on KDE in xdg-email. Closes: #898999.
   * Bump debhelper and standards version, no modifications for this.

xdg-utils (1.1.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Update Vcs for salsa.debian.org.
   * 01-open-lxqt.patch: Fix support in LXQt, which isn't the same as LXDE.
     Closes: #884436.

2017

xdg-utils (1.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Nicholas Guriev ]
   * New maintainer, Debian freedesktop.org group. Closes: #876401.
   * New upstream release. Closes: #865210.
   * Bump Standards Version, no modifications for this.
   * Remove gvfs-bin package from dependencies. Closes: #877747.
 
   [ Per Olofsson ]
   * Update Description.
     - Correctly indent the list of commands.
     - Remove mention of the Portland project. (xdg-utils is the only
       surviving product from Portland.)
     - gvfs-bin is also needed in MATE and Cinnamon.
   * Add bug-script that reports the value of $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.
   * Add bug-presubj asking for 'sh -x' output.
 
   [ Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ]
   * Remove Fathi from Uploaders. Thanks for your previous work!

2015

xdg-utils (1.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release.
     - xdg-open: Handle whitespace in filenames and fix generic mode
       regression. Closes: #801048.
     - xdg-screensaver: Reset DPMS timer. Closes: #745340.
   * Update debian/watch, primary URL is working again.
   * Update Description.

xdg-utils (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release.
     - Adds references to specifications to the manuals. Closes: #800826.
     - xdg-open: Handle files with '?' and '#' in their names in generic mode.
       Closes: #800355.
     - xdg-settings: Detect generic DE instead of failing. Closes: #787791.
     - xdg-open, xdg-email: Add iceweasel to the list of fallback browsers.
       Closes: #788047.
     - xdg-open: Fall back to generic mode if gvfs-open and gnome-open are
       missing. Closes: #685304.
     - xdg-mime: Check ~/.config/mimeapps.list for default application.
       Closes: #800825.
   * Don't build html documentation, we don't install it anyway.
   * Update Description.
   * Update Homepage.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc3+git20150922-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Merge latest upstream git tree.
     - xdg-icon-resource: Don't try to install anything into /.
       Closes: #799741.
   * Remove autotests/Makefile in distclean target.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc3+git20150919-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Rebase on latest upstream git tree.
     - Drop the following patches which were applied upstream:
       + xdg-email-detect-icedove.patch
       + xdg-email-thunderbird-quoting.patch
       + xdg-email-try-xdg-open.patch
       + xdg-open-browser-multiword.diff
       + xdg-open-printf.diff
       + fix-bashism-use-of-echo.patch
   * Maintain Debian patches in git instead of using quilt patches.
   * Update git URLs in debian/control.
   * xdg-open: Try $BROWSER first in generic mode if it is set by the
     user. Closes: #799568.
   * Add an automated test suite (under development).

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc3+git20150907-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Add upstream bug URL to xdg-open-browser-multiword.diff.
   * Use local variable in patch xdg-open-browser-multiword.diff.
   * Add upstream bug URL to patch xdg-open-printf.diff.
   * Add upstream bug URL to fix-bashism-use-of-echo.patch.
   * Add xdg-email-try-xdg-open.patch: Try using xdg-open in xdg-email's
     generic mode. Closes: #691259.
   * Only try to auto-detect Mutt in xdg-email in generic mode after we
     tried xdg-open.
   * Add xdg-email-detect-icedove.patch: Also detect Icedove in xdg-email
     for Thunderbird special handling.
   * Add xdg-email-thunderbird-quoting.patch: Don't quote header fields
     when calling Thunderbird from xdg-email.
   * Drop patch xdg-email-mutt-detect.diff. Currently difficult to pinpoint
     exactly when to use auto-detection.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc3+git20150907-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release. Closes: #773753, #754219.
     - Drop patch xdg-open-escape-sed.diff, applied upstream.
     - Drop patch xdg-open-spaces.diff, obsolete.
     - Drop patch command-injection.patch, obsolete.
     - Drop patch xdg-open-safe.diff, applied upstream.
     - Drop patch CVE-2015-1877.patch, obsolete.
     - Parses multiple sections in desktop files correctly. Closes: #776419.
     - URI scheme handlers should work now, even in generic mode.
       Closes: #678886.
     - mailto: URIs should work in MATE now. Closes: #770333.
     - xdg-screensaver should detect KDE5 correctly now.
       Closes: #798084, #792138.
   * Acknowledge NMUs. Closes: #685078, #691182, #773085, #777722.
   * Remove scripts/html/index.html when cleaning.
   * Bump debian/compat to 9.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6 (no changes).
   * Add new location to debian/watch and add mangle rules for rc's.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Add CVE-2015-1877.patch patch.
     CVE-2015-1877: Command injection vulnerability due to local variables
     collision.
     Thanks to Jiri Horner <laeqten@gmail.com> (Closes: #777722)

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.3) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Fix command injection vulnerability in xdg-open (closes: #773085).

2014

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team.
   * Fix command injection vulnerability in xdg-open (closes: #773085).

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Add fix-bashism-use-of-echo.patch patch.
     Instead of using echo -e in xdg-email use directly /bin/echo. Fixes
     bashism use of echo and fixes opening of composer window in Thunderbird.
     (Closes: #685078, #691182)

2013

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #688681.

2012

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix regression in patch xdg-open-escape-sed.diff. Because of
     insufficient quoting, files with spaces could not be opened in
     generic mode. Thanks to Jesse Hathaway for noticing this.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add patch xdg-open-escape-sed.diff: Escape the sed replacement string
     in xdg-open when replacing command arguments for the generic
     method. Fixes issue with the '&' character in URLs.
     Thanks to Cyril Soldani. Closes: #654863.
   * Bump debhelper compat level to v8.
   * Add patch no-X.diff: Make xdg-open and xdg-email work without an X
     display. Closes: #654306.
   * Modify xdg-email-mutt-detect.diff so that it only tries to run mutt
     inside a terminal window if running under X.

2011

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Use 'set -e' in the for loops in debian/rules.
   * Only fallback on mutt if MAILER is not set and not running under a
     DE. Thanks to Jindřich Makovička. Closes: #653578.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-3) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Medium urgency due to RC bugfix.
   * Build-depend on w3m, needed by xmlto to generate text output.
     Closes: #652781.
   * Run make with the C.UTF-8 locale to get correct characters in
     output.
   * Also preserve scripts/README during builds.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix debian/rules so that all scripts are really built from source.
     Closes: #652066.
   * Add patch xdg-open-spaces.diff: Single-double-quote argument to eval
     so that filenames with spaces can be opened. Closes: #652067.
   * Avoid .PHONY in debian/rules.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream git snapshot b961235b197647d6649ef3d48d7cc2cecafe3d47.
   * Drop patches applied upstream:
     - xdg-mime-follow-symlinks.diff
     - x-www-browser.diff
     - xdg-mime-generic-use-mimetype.diff
     - bashisms.diff
     - xdg-screensaver-check-gnome.diff
   * Modify patches to make changes to scripts/xdg-*.in, instead of the
     generated scripts.
   * Also check for ~/.mutt/muttrc when deciding whether to use mutt as
     MUA or not. Thanks to martin f krafft. Closes: #648733.
   * Build scripts/xdg-* from *.in files.
   * Build-depend on xmlto and awk, as they are needed when building the
     scripts.
   * Also build the manual pages.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No changes.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1-3) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Per Olofsson ]
   * Remove debian/patches/xserver-blanking.diff, already applied
     upstream. Thanks to Tanguy Ortolo for spotting this.
     Closes: #647794.
   * Add patch xdg-screensaver-check-gnome.diff: Use DBus API to check if
     gnome-screensaver is running, as gnome-screensaver-command no longer
     returns correct exit status. Thanks to Tanguy Ortolo for noticing
     this. Closes: #647791.
 
   [ Ben Hutchings ]
   * Add patch xdg-screensaver-new-gnome.diff: Use DBus API for GNOME
     since gnome-screensaver-command --poke has been removed.
     Closes: #610155.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Tag patches with upstream bug URLs.
   * Add patch xdg-mime-follow-symlinks.diff: Follow symlinks when
     querying MIME type in xdg-mime.
   * Add patch xdg-open-browser-multiword.diff: Fix support for multi-word
     $BROWSER commands. Closes: #612339.
   * Add patch xdg-open-printf.diff: Use /usr/bin/printf if available when
     decoding URLs. dash's printf doesn't understand \xHH
     sequences. Closes: #613272.

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Drop patches included upstream:
     - xdg-email-mawk-support.diff
     - run-mailcap-decode.diff
     - xdg-open-spaces.diff
   * Add debian/source/local-options with option unapply-patches.
   * Recommend libfile-mimeinfo-perl instead of file, mime-support,
     shared-mime-info, www-browser.
   * Add patch xdg-mime-generic-use-mimetype.diff: Try mimetype first as
     the generic method for xdg-mime. Closes: #609630.
   * Add patch bashism.diff fixing some new bashisms.

2010

xdg-utils (1.0.2+cvs20100307-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/patches/xserver-blanking.diff: Support X server blanking in
     xdg-screensaver. Thanks to Ben Hutchings. Closes: #511248.
   * debian/patches/xdg-email-envvar.diff: Add $MAILER support to
     xdg-email. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder and Jan Braun for input.
     Info about this added to NEWS.Debian.
     Closes: #574131.
   * debian/patches/xdg-email-mutt-detect.diff: Fallback to mutt if
     ~/.muttrc exists. Thanks to Jan Braun.
   * Replace sensible-browser.diff with x-www-browser.diff. Instead of
     using sensible-browser, try x-www-browser as the first choice when
     $BROWSER is unset (and using generic method). This will approximate
     sensible-browser's behaviour.
   * Bump Standard-Version to 3.9.1. No changes.
   * debian/patches/xdg-open-spaces.diff: Support paths with spaces in
     open_generic_xdg_mime(). Thanks to Fabien Bochu. Closes: #592682.

xdg-utils (1.0.2+cvs20100307-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add patch xdg-email-mawk-support.diff: Fix bug in awk script
     in xdg-email so that it works with mawk. Closes: #589133.

xdg-utils (1.0.2+cvs20100307-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Make a new upstream release from CVS.
     - Make xdg-open's open_generic() check for URLs before trying to open them
       with non-browsers. Closes: #571557.

2009

xdg-utils (1.0.2+cvs20100223-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Make a new upstream release from CVS.
     - Add gvfs-copy and gvfs-info support. Closes: 479578.
     - Add email attachments support to Thunderbird from xdg-email.
       Closes: #531850.
     - Add KDE 4 support to xdg-email. Closes: #555212.
     - Add dbus commands to xdg-screensaver for KDE 4. Closes: #557104.
 
   [ Per Olofsson ]
   * Use source format 3.0 (quilt).
   * Use dh override rules in debian/rules. Build-dep on debhelper 7.4.15.
   * Add ${misc:Depends} to make lintian happy.
   * Ack NMU. Closes: #508125.
   * Bump standards-version to 3.8.4. No changes.
   * Update Suggests to refer to GVfs and KDE4 packages for opening
     files, etc.
   * Remove libgtk2.0-bin and desktop-file-utils from Suggests. They are
     not interesting for users and are usually installed anyway.
   * Both kdebase-runtime and exo-utils are pretty much guaranteed to be
     installed if KDE or Xfce is installed. So don't suggest those. Keep
     gvfs-bin, however.
   * mimeopen doesn't work as it should, so don't use it.
 
   [ Fathi Boudra ]
   * Add myself to Uploaders field.
   * Remove debian/postinst and debian/postrm: they are not required.
     Closes: 566165.
   * Add xdg-settings to xdg-utils description.

xdg-utils (1.0.2-6.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * debian/patches/fix-xdg-screensaver-race: Fix race condition which
     leads to process leak. Closes: #508125.

2008

xdg-utils (1.0.2-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/patches/run-mailcap.diff: Test $1 instead of $file which has
     not been assigned yet. Fixes failure to open URLs other than file://
     when xdg-open is called under a generic desktop environment
     (regression in 1.0.2-5). Closes: #484602.

xdg-utils (1.0.2-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/patches/xdg-open-generic: Use 'local' according to policy.
   * Add a .diff extension to all patch filenames.
   * Split up patches to make them more fine-grained (one feature per
     patch).
   * Remove libexo alternative dep for exo-utils, now that exo-utils is
     in lenny.
   * Remove xsltproc from Recommends, not used anymore.
   * Add debian/patches/xdg-mime-xfce.diff: Fix xdg-mime under Xfce.
     Closes: #430654.
   * Add debian/patches/xdg-mime-errorchecking.diff: Check return code
     from programs invoked by "xdg-mime query filetype". Closes: #465443.

xdg-utils (1.0.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Update debian/patches/xdg-email-generic:
     - Don't add things already added by upstream now.
     - Don't check if gnome-open/exo-open exists, because they almost
       certainly do if running under the corresponding desktop environment.
     - Remove upstream's default BROWSER list, sensible-browser will
       take care of it instead.
   * Update debian/patches/xdg-open-generic:
     - Don't check if gnome-open/exo-open exists, because they almost
       certainly do if running under the corresponding desktop environment.
       Check for kfmclient though, as the user might not have konqueror.
     - Decode file:/// URLs correctly before passing them to run-mailcap,
       expanding any percent-encoded characters.
   * Remove menu from Suggests. Was only ever used by xdg-su which does
     not exist anymore.
   * Switch to the new, cool debhelper v7. Rewrite debian/rules so it gets
     much smaller.
   * Remove the -1 revision from the quilt build-dep.
   * Add debian/patches/bashisms.patch, correcting some bashisms.
     Thanks to Chris Lamb for part of it. Closes: #472890.

xdg-utils (1.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Suggest the new exo-utils package. Keep libexo-0.3-0 as an
     alternative. Closes: #462498.

2007

xdg-utils (1.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Recommend iceweasel instead of firefox.
   * Suggest kdelibs4c2a instead of kdelibs-bin. (Provides the dcop
     command.)
   * Recommend x11-utils and x11-xserver-utils instead of xbase-clients.
     (Provide xprop and xset.)

xdg-utils (1.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release. Closes: #454925.
   * Point Vcs-{Git,Browser} to new repo at git.debian.org. Also remove
     XS- prefix.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes).
   * Add new Homepage field. Remove Website psuedo-field from
     description.
   * Don't ignore errors from make distclean in debian/rules. Check if
     Makefile exists first instead.
   * Leading lowercase character in short description.

xdg-utils (1.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Fix debian/watch.
   * Use quilt's supplied make rules for patch handling.
   * Distribute RELEASE_NOTES and TODO
   * Update description

2006

xdg-utils (1.0-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

   * Use XS-Vcs-Git: instead of XS-X-Vcs-Git:.

xdg-utils (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Remove debian/patches/xdg-open-xfce, integrated upstream.
     - Remove debian/patches/xdg-icon-resource-check-for-cache,
       integrated upstream.
     - Remove debian/patches/no-tests-clean, integrated upstream.
   * Update debian/watch.
   * Added XS-X-Vcs-Git reference to repository in source control file.

xdg-utils (1.0~beta3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - xdg-su is gone.
   * Fix xfce support in xdg-open. Closes: #382836.
   * Added debian/watch.
   * Check for icon-theme.cache before running gtk-update-icon-cache. If we
     create a cache where none was, things will break for other packages.
   * Disable tests-clean rule (does nasty things).
   * Added postinst/prerm which create/remove the following directories in
     /usr/local:
     - /usr/local/share/applications
     - /usr/local/share/desktop-directories
     - /usr/local/share/icons
     - /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor
     - /usr/local/share/mime
     - /usr/local/share/mime/packages
   * Recommend: shared-mime-info.

xdg-utils (0.9+1.0beta1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Remove comments from debian/rules.
   * Move Depends: to Recommends:. Closes: #380141.
   * Recommend: mime-support.
   * Use run-mailcap for generic xdg-open support.
   * Use generic fallbacks even if running a desktop environment (if the
     needed program is not found).
   * Try su-to-root as a generic fallback in xdg-su. Suggest: menu.

xdg-utils (0.9+1.0beta1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial release. Closes: #375362